The Muslim community issues that need to be presented to the political candidates for 2008 elections, after the issues of War in Iraq and Foreign Policy are – Economy, Healthcare, and Environment that cover the breadth and depth of the American spectrum of life. This article presents presidential candidate positions on economy.

When asked in the AMPEC survey, â€œPeople who are unemployed are generally that way because they are lazyâ€, the response was: Strongly Agree: 2%: Agree: 8%; No Opinion: 11%; Disagree: 46%; Strongly Disagree: 33%; with 2% no input (with a small error in rounding off to nearest whole number).

Seventy nine percent (79%) of the American Muslim community members surveyed consider the current unemployment is not due to people not seeking gainful employment with 10% agreeing, while 13% had no opinion. This indicates the poor economic opportunities thrust on the nation by draining the treasury into the most un-popular wars started by the current US government. The infrastructure, education, healthcare and other employment markets are going dry while the military contractors and suppliers and oil companies are reaping huge intakes.

Until the Michigan Primary, the debates around the country between the presidential candidates were mainly engaging the hopefuls on issues other than economy. The State of Michigan and its voters have injected the economy issue for the first time into the political debate – and the voters lost. Both national parties, Democrat and Republican, decided to punish the state for moving the primary election ahead â€“ Democrats loosing all convention delegates while Republicans lost half.

The candidate positions are briefly outlined as bullet items. Readers interested in complete details may check on line at www.ontheissues.org. Surprisingly none of the candidates dared to mention the possible sources that may be eliminated, saving billions for US infrastructure reinforcements. First source is obviously the US wars, saving trillions of dollars. The other source that every presidential candidate is afraid of mentioning is the cutting or reducing of US foreign aid to countries in the Middle East.